Auctions

Stack’s Bowers Galleries offers in their upcoming auction over 3,700 lots estimated at $8.6 million. The auction features many important collections as the majestic Oro del Nuevo Mundo Collection with gold and gold-related Latin American rarities.

During their December Auction Stack’s Bowers sold the second part of the Larry H. Miller collection including some of the greatest rarities in US numismatics. The 1804 Class I Original Draped Bust dollar became the most expensive US coin sold in 2020.

Auction 346 is Künker’s spectacular start into the year of its 50th anniversary: the sale features 678 coins and medals as well as 43 orders including selected lösers of Brunswick-Lüneburg from the Friedrich Popken Collection.

Nomos' web-auction Obolos 17 closed with almost 97% of the lots sold and a total hammer price of 359,630 CHF. Alan Walker presents some honorable results in his usual witty way.

Cayón’s E-auction 72 features more than 700 lots and will be closing on Wednesday, 23 December 2020. The sale comprises a remarkable range of mainly Spanish coins. One of the top lots is a rare Felipe III 50 reales or cincuentín 1620 over 10 from Segovia.

Solidus’ sixth Literature Auction is particularly extensive comprising 2,031 lots. The sale features bibliophile rarities, reference works, and numerous volumes from the libraries of Reinhold Jordan and Ursula Kampmann.

Nomos 21 was an outstanding auction with 396 mainly ancient high quality coins. Alan Walker presents the most spectacular coins offered in the auction: a famous tetradrachm of Naxos, and the Libertas Americana Medal commissioned by Benjamin Franklin in 1783.

Top prices for Nuremberg talers, the most expensive Nuremberg pfennig and the most expensive silver coin of the Kingdom of Westphalia: there were a lot of surprises in Heidelberger Münzhandlung’s auction 80, even though the records that are currently being achieved in the coin trade can almost no longer be called a surprise.

The upcoming Triton XXIV features over 1,400 highly important coins. Many of these come from well-known collections and some are published. The presale estimate is $6.16 million.

Atlas Numismatics published their December list with 420 new coins, medals and tokens. Highlights are some high-quality gold coins with important provenances.